She also posted a photo of herself planting an affectionate kiss on her mother’s cheek.

Leyla Guven, 55, has been in jail since January 2018 for critical remarks about Turkey’s military operation in the predominantly Kurdish town of Afrin in northern Syria.

Facing more than a 100 years in prison on charges of membership and leadership of an armed organisation, terror propaganda and inciting people to hatred, Ms Guven went on hunger strike.

An MP in declining health

She is both an MP for the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party HDP and the co-leader of Democratic Society Congress – an assembly of representatives from civil society organisations, political parties, lawyers, and human rights defenders.

The Turkish government accuses the congress of being linked to the militant Kurdish PKK group which has waged an insurgency in Turkey for over three decades, costing more than 40,000 lives.

Two former joint leaders of the HDP, Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, have been in jail since 2016 on terrorism charges.